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Mistral AI4mo ago

Mistral wants €20bn. The valuation is the pitch.

Double the price in months — on revenue that's real but a long way from the number.

4 min read · 12 June 2026
Nvidia4mo ago

Humanoid robots: less sci-fi, more spreadsheet

Ignore the backflip videos. The only number that matters is how fast a robot reaches its second paying job.

4 min read · 11 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Anthropic says 'slow down' — five days before shipping Fable 5

A coordinated pause that would conveniently freeze the race with Anthropic near the front.

4 min read · 10 June 2026
Decart4mo ago

Decart's world model is real — and narrow on purpose

It dropped the sci-fi 'simulate anything' pitch for something that might actually sell — and the caveats are the whole point.

4 min read · 10 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Fable 5 is here. The benchmark flex is real — the moat isn't.

The chart goes up. That's the easy part.

3 min read · 9 June 2026
Apple4mo ago

Apple's big AI reveal quietly runs on Google's Gemini

The privacy company's flagship AI is, at its core, a rented model. That's the actual story.

4 min read · 8 June 2026
OpenAI4mo ago

OpenAI files a week after Anthropic, and nobody can agree what it's worth

$730 billion? $850 billion? A trillion? Pick a number — they did.

3 min read · 8 June 2026
xAI4mo ago

xAI's new model animates one photo into video — 'preview' is the word doing the work

Cinematic video from a single still, at 720p, in preview. Impressive — and genuinely unfinished.

3 min read · 3 June 2026
Nvidia4mo ago

The US just made the chip ban follow the owner, not the address

Spin up a subsidiary in Singapore? Doesn't matter anymore. The rule asks who your parent is — and Commerce quietly admitted it failed to ask for a year.

4 min read · 1 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Anthropic wants to go public on a number you're not allowed to see yet

$965bn valuation, $47bn run-rate, one confidential filing. Spot the asymmetry.

4 min read · 1 June 2026
Lamp Dating4mo ago

Lamp Dating vs Tinder, Hinge and Bumble: Why the Swipe Apps Lose in 2026

The swipe apps are all the same broken model. Lamp Dating is built differently — and here are the receipts.

5 min read · 1 June 2026
MiniMax4mo ago

MiniMax shipped an 'open-weight' model with no weights. Bold.

Frontier claims, vendor benchmarks, and a Hugging Face link that wasn't there yet.

3 min read · 1 June 2026
GitHub4mo ago

GitHub Copilot's new bill is a metered surprise

The 'unlimited' AI assistant just discovered it has a meter after all.

3 min read · 1 June 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

Opus 4.8: the benchmarks crept up, but the fast mode is the actual upgrade

Five points on a coding benchmark. A 2.5× speed-up. Guess which one you'll actually feel.

4 min read · 28 May 2026
Sesame4mo ago

Sesame's voice AI sounds great. Will anyone keep using it?

Naturalness was the easy problem. Habit is the one that kills voice apps.

4 min read · 28 May 2026
Anthropic4mo ago

AI found 23,000 software bugs. The humans can't keep up.

The impressive number is the find rate. The scary number is the fix rate.

4 min read · 26 May 2026
xAI4mo ago

Musk says Grok V9 is trained. We've heard this tune.

A finished-training tweet is not a shipped model — especially from xAI.

3 min read · 25 May 2026
HonestCodes4mo ago

Is HonestCodes legit? Yes — here is exactly how it works

Short answer: yes. Here is how it checks codes, how it makes money, and why its verified-first approach beats a long unchecked list.

3 min read · 25 May 2026
OpenAI5mo ago

AI did real maths — here's what that does and doesn't mean

Genuinely impressive. Also genuinely narrow. Both at once.

3 min read · 22 May 2026
Anthropic5mo ago

Anthropic and Microsoft are 'in talks' about Maia 200. Here's what that actually means.

Early-stage talks are not a deal. Before you write the chip-war headline, read what's actually on the table.

4 min read · 21 May 2026
Nvidia5mo ago

Nvidia made $81.6bn in a quarter. The boom is extremely real.

Every AI debate eventually runs into one company's income statement. Here's what the numbers actually say — and the part that should unsettle you.

4 min read · 20 May 2026
OpenAI5mo ago

AI 'solved' famous maths problems. Read the asterisks.

The results are real. So are the caveats nobody screenshots.

3 min read · 20 May 2026
Google5mo ago

Google announced a flagship it couldn't ship — and called the cheap one the win

Gemini 3.5 Flash is out. Gemini 3.5 Pro is a 'next month'. Notice which one got the keynote.

4 min read · 19 May 2026
OpenAI5mo ago

OpenAI's new voice stack is an agent play, not a party trick

The interesting model isn't the one that talks — it's the one that thinks.

3 min read · 7 May 2026